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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The main character of a literary work.






2. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






3. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






4. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






5. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






6. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






7. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






8. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






9. A three-line stanza.






10. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






11. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






12. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






13. Broken down acts.






14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






15. The organizational form of a literary work.






16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






17. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






18. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






19. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






20. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






21. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






22. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






23. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






24. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






25. The person who 'tells' the story.






26. A character struggles against some outside force.






27. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






28. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






29. A short saying with a moral.






30. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






31. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






32. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






33. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






34. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






35. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






36. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






37. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






38. A strong pause within a line.






39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






40. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






41. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






43. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






44. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






45. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






46. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






47. The dictionary meaning of a word.






48. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






49. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






50. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.